NASA has been capturing
earth surface temperature data using the Landsat 7 satellite and the stunning results are now in... the hottest surface temperature ever recorded keeps happening in the same area of the Lut Desert in Iran.
Not exact matches
«The
data showed that both greenhouse gases and sea
surface temperature anomalies contributed strongly to the risk of snow drought in Oregon and Washington,» said Mote, a professor in OSU's College of
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.
THEMIS Principal Investigator Philip Christensen and THEMIS Mission Planner, Jonathon Hill of ASU's School of
Earth and Space Exploration, combined visible - wavelength and infrared
data to produce an image color - coded for
surface temperatures of this moon, which has been considered for a potential future human - mission outpost.
The misunderstanding stems from
data showing that during the past decade there was a slowing in the rate at which the
earth's average
surface temperature had been increasing.
The
data, in the form of infrared images of the
Earth's
surface, is used to detect changes in sea
surface temperatures for research -LSB-...]
For their paper, published in Applied Geography, researchers at the
Earth Institute at Columbia University and Battelle Memorial Institute studied air
temperature data from weather stations, land
surface temperatures measured by satellites and socioeconomic
data.
Through comparison of the sea -
surface temperature data extending back to the 1860s, it has been determined that the
Earth's ocean
temperature appears to pass through a 10 - year cycle as well as the 3 - year to 4 - year cycle.
If you look at the recent
data where we have particularly good satellite measurements of what the Sun is doing, there is no increasing trend in the solar output to explain the rapid, recent increases in
surface temperature of the
Earth.
Other researchers have tried to calculate the climate's sensitivity using
temperature data collected at the
Earth's
surface.
Data indicate that
Earth's
surface temperature is rising.
The two longest ones are of
temperature near the
Earth's
surface: a vast network of weather stations over land areas, and ship
data from the oceans.
For those not familiar with it, the purpose of Berkeley
Earth was to create a new, independent compilation and assessment of global land
surface temperature trends using new statistical methods and a wider range of source
data.
The GISS group and the
surface temperature records are managed by the GISS group and not the larger NASA
Earth Observing System
Data Information Services (EOSDIS).
Berkeley
Earth kindly posted the
surface temperature data.
Whatever happened to the concept of simply measuring the
temperature at times and places on the
earth surface that conform to the sampling requirements of standard sampled
data system theory; i.e. Nyquist.
The study — «Possible Artifacts of
Data Biases in the Recent Global
Surface Warming Hiatus» — was published by Science magazine in June 2015 and pushed back against assertions from other research groups that found a pause in rising global
temperatures from 1998 to 2012, which goes against climate change advocates» insistence that the
earth's
temperature has been on a steady incline for decades.
The evolving radiation balance of the
earth as seen in the satellite
data shows that the energy added by the CO2 and feedbacks is more than sufficient to explain the observed warming
surface temperatures.
WMO - «Because the
data with respect to in - situ
surface air
temperature across Africa is sparse, a oneyear regional assessment for Africa could not be based on any of the three standard global
surface air
temperature data sets from NOAANCDC, NASA - GISS or HadCRUT4 Instead, the combination of the Global Historical Climatology Network and the Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (CAMS GHCN) by NOAA's
Earth System Research Laboratory was used to estimate s
These facts were enough for an NAS panel, including Christy, to publish a report Reconciling Observations of Global
Temperature Change which concluded that «Despite differences in temperature data, strong evidence exists to show that the warming of the Earth's surface is undoubtedly real, and surface temperatures in the past two decades have risen at a rate substantially greater than average for the past 100 y
Temperature Change which concluded that «Despite differences in
temperature data, strong evidence exists to show that the warming of the Earth's surface is undoubtedly real, and surface temperatures in the past two decades have risen at a rate substantially greater than average for the past 100 y
temperature data, strong evidence exists to show that the warming of the
Earth's
surface is undoubtedly real, and
surface temperatures in the past two decades have risen at a rate substantially greater than average for the past 100 years»
In order to understand California's precipitation patterns and the influence of El Niño better, Bor - Ting Jong from the Lamont - Doherty
Earth Observatory at Columbia University and her colleagues used sea
surface temperature and weather
data from as far back as 1901.
It appears that the
temperature natural change in the N. Hemisphere directly correlates to the combined changes in two magnetic fields as measured at the
Earth's
surface The combination is physically invalid and made - up, possibly for the purpose of producing a correlation: «hmmm, let's see what combination of
data would give me a correlation...»
One would certainly expect satellite
temperature data to differ somewhat to
data collected by thermometers on the
Earth's
surface.
Seems to me that your interest is in global
temperatures, (even if from what I've seen, your
data collection is heavily concentrated on a small % of the
earth's
surface).
This miniscule change forecast is as accurate as the most current
data when compared to the sun's forcing the
earth's
surface 280 ° + C over deep space
temperatures (Chart 1).
The well below freezing
surface winter
temperatures of Northern high latitudes are such wildly variable almost non-correlated
data points which tell almost nothing of the real warming (i.e. increase in heat content of the
Earth system) but may affect in an unpredictable way the global average
surface temperature.
Still, it would be nice to see you place near
surface temperature data over the past 15 years in its true perspective related to the full
Earth energy system and the long term perspective of
Earth's energy imbalance.
Then the most recent explanations from Rohde, Hausfather, and Mosher for Berkeley
Earth adjustments seem to turn this issue upside down, arguing that their process for correcting the
data is what results in the lowering of
temperatures, not from recent years, but from early years when the urban heat island and corruption of
surface station sites would not have yet occurred.
The following applications of
temperature data are either related to geographical,
earth surface or to seasonal issues, as it follows:
The original Escalator was based on the Berkeley
Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) data, which incorporates more temperature station data than any other data set, but is limited to land - only data; additionally the record terminates in
Temperature (BEST)
data, which incorporates more
temperature station data than any other data set, but is limited to land - only data; additionally the record terminates in
temperature station
data than any other
data set, but is limited to land - only
data; additionally the record terminates in early 2010.
An example to explain why this is a fallacy: if one were able to measure the
temperature at a single point on the
Earth's
surface (say sea level) for a million years consecutively you would have a time series
data set.
Now, Stephen Briggs from the European Space Agency's Directorate of
Earth Observation says that sea
surface temperature data is the worst indicator of global climate that can be used, describing it as «lousy».
The
data indicates that the lower troposphere (up to eight km above the
earth's
surface) has warmed roughly by 17 degrees Celsius since the beginning of satellite
temperature records in [continue reading...]
«Because the
data with respect to in - situ
surface air
temperature across Africa is sparse, a oneyear regional assessment for Africa could not be based on any of the three standard global
surface air
temperature data sets from NOAANCDC, NASA - GISS or HadCRUT4 Instead, the combination of the Global Historical Climatology Network and the Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (CAMS GHCN) by NOAA's
Earth System Research Laboratory was used to estimate
surface air
temperature patterns»
Earth's
surface temperature prior to instrumental measurements is estimated via proxy
data.
Figure 2: Berkeley
Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) land - only surface temperature data (green) with linear trends applied to the timeframes 1973 to 1980, 1980 to 1988, 1988 to 1995, 1995 to 2001, 1998 to 2005, 2002 to 2010 (blue), and 1973 to 2010
Surface Temperature (BEST) land - only surface temperature data (green) with linear trends applied to the timeframes 1973 to 1980, 1980 to 1988, 1988 to 1995, 1995 to 2001, 1998 to 2005, 2002 to 2010 (blue), and 1973 to
Temperature (BEST) land - only
surface temperature data (green) with linear trends applied to the timeframes 1973 to 1980, 1980 to 1988, 1988 to 1995, 1995 to 2001, 1998 to 2005, 2002 to 2010 (blue), and 1973 to 2010
surface temperature data (green) with linear trends applied to the timeframes 1973 to 1980, 1980 to 1988, 1988 to 1995, 1995 to 2001, 1998 to 2005, 2002 to 2010 (blue), and 1973 to
temperature data (green) with linear trends applied to the timeframes 1973 to 1980, 1980 to 1988, 1988 to 1995, 1995 to 2001, 1998 to 2005, 2002 to 2010 (blue), and 1973 to 2010 (red).
NASA
Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using AIRS Land
Surface Temperature data provided courtesy of the AIRS team.
On the new paper «On the Misdiagnosis Of
Surface Temperature Feedbacks From Variations In
Earth's Radiant Energy Balance» By Spencer and Braswell 2011 and the subsequent Reuters headline «New NASA
Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism»
See, the first thing to do is do determine what the
temperature trend during the recent thermometer period (1850 — 2011) actually is, and what patterns or trends represent «
data» in those trends (what the
earth's
temperature / climate really was during this period), and what represents random «noise» (day - to - day, year - to - random changes in the «weather» that do NOT represent «climate change»), and what represents experimental error in the plots (UHI increases in the
temperatures, thermometer loss and loss of USSR
data, «metadata» «M» (minus) records getting skipped that inflate winter
temperatures, differences in sea records from different measuring techniques, sea records vice land records, extrapolated land records over hundreds of km,
surface temperature errors from lousy stations and lousy maintenance of
surface records and stations, false and malicious time - of - observation bias changes in the information.)
Hard
data on the annual rise and fall of
Earth's global
surface temperatures only goes back about 150 years.
«Berkeley
Earth Surface Temperature aims to contribute to a clearer understanding of global warming based on a more extensive and rigorous analysis of available historical
data.»
Temperature: Global — Ground and Sea
Surface Temperature Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Monterey Marine Meteorology Division — Click the pic to view at source Global
Surface Temperature Anomalies National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--
Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)-- Click the pic to view at source Global — Sea
Surface Temperature Anomalies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-- National Climatic
Data Center (NCDC)-- Click the pic to view at source UAH Lower Atmosphere
Temperature Anomalies — 1979 to Present.
4 Volokin et al have shown that planetary
surface temperatures are a function of solar insolation and
surface pressure only, not GHG concentrations, on all 8 planets for which we have adequate
data, including
Earth & Venus.
The «BEST» (Berkeley
Earth Surface Temperatures) study, under lead scientist (and former skeptic) Richard Muller, was sponsored by institutions that had previously supported the denial of the standard interpretation of the climate
data.
The Berkeley
Earth Surface Temperature Study has created a preliminary merged data set by combining 1.6 billion temperature reports from 16 preexisting dat
Temperature Study has created a preliminary merged
data set by combining 1.6 billion
temperature reports from 16 preexisting dat
temperature reports from 16 preexisting
data archives.
Earth's global average
surface temperature has risen as shown in this plot of combined land and ocean measurements from 1850 to 2012, derived from three independent analyses of the available
data sets.
, but now that the Berkeley
Earth Surface Temperature Project folks have worked over the temperature data again, there's no more cause for skepticism about whether or not the globe
Temperature Project folks have worked over the
temperature data again, there's no more cause for skepticism about whether or not the globe
temperature data again, there's no more cause for skepticism about whether or not the globe has warmed.
Now, there arises also the question of the
data for the
temperature increase of the
surface of the
Earth which can be found in the different reports.
He argues against its use as a policy target, because it is not directly related to what is experienced by people living on the
earth's
surface, and the
surface temperature data base goes back further in time and is more extensive.
In a paper, «Heat Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity of
Earth's Climate System» soon to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research (and discussed briefly at RealClimate a few weeks back), Stephen Schwartz of Brookhaven National Laboratory estimates climate sensitivity using observed 20th - century
data on ocean heat content and global
surface temperature.
His written testimony was devoted to describing that the preliminary results of the Berkeley
Earth Surface Temperature project are consistent with the rest of the surface measurement dat
Surface Temperature project are consistent with the rest of the
surface measurement dat
surface measurement
data sets.